(in a preferential vote) the total number of votes which express a first preference for a given candidate.
she received 29 per cent of the primary vote
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- He won the primary vote ahead of existing councillors.
- He received more than 40 percent of the primary vote and ran well ahead of all his competitors.
- Preference votes will be just as important as primary votes in the state election.
- Even though he took only half of her primary vote, he won on preferences.
- She increased her primary vote from 160 to 265 this year.
- The party polled extremely well in Brisbane and should be well up around the 15 per cent primary vote mark.
- The mayor was re-elected from a field of four with a majority of primary votes.
- Last week's poll suggests a more than six per cent swing in the primary vote of the major parties within the space of a rather uneventful fortnight.
- He still holds with a comfortable primary vote of 58 .5 per cent.
- The Government spent twice as much to buy the election, and yet it has suffered a two per cent drop in primary vote.
- The party's primary vote fell by more than 2 per cent.